[racket] Racket now has 360K hits in Google "verbatim"

Worth noting that last month, Nov '12, the triple digit stratosphere was
broached.


On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 2:48 PM, Joe Marshall <jmarshall at alum.mit.edu> wrote:

> I don't object to the silliness, I object to it being called a measure!
> The number that shows up on the search results page is a pure
> guess made by a part of the system that doesn't have access to
> the actual index.  Really, Google Trends is a much better tool.
> http://www.google.com/trends/explore#cat=0-5-31&q=Racket&cmpt=q
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 11:30 AM, John Clements <clements at brinckerhoff.org>wrote:
>
>> Before Joe points it out: yes, this is a silly measure.  And yet, it
>> appears to be (a substantial component of) the TIOBE index--another silly
>> measure. The actual news is this: Using google's "verbatim" results, the
>> query +"Racket Programming" is reported as having "About 360,000 results".
>> Given that last month's result was something like 20K, I'm a wee bit
>> suspicious. However, I'm never one to look a gift horse in the mouth.
>>
>> Merry Christmas!
>>
>> John
>>
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